BEAVER FALLS, a borough of Beaver county, Pennsyl vania, U.S.A., on a plateau 5oft. above the Beaver river, three and one-half miles from its confluence with the Ohio, and about 3om. N.W. of Pittsburgh. It is served by the Pennsylvania and the New York Central railways. The population was 12,802 in 1920, of which 2,656 were foreign-born white, and was 17,147 in 193o by Federal census.
This is one of the important manufacturing boroughs of the populous and busy Beaver valley. There are coalmines, stone quarries, and gas-wells in the vicinity, and within five miles of Beaver Falls there are about 200 factories with an annual output valued at $45,000,000. Leading manufactures are steel wire, matting and nails; park amusement devices ; scales and files ; lum ber, kegs and barrels; well-drillers, stoves, enamelled signs, chemi cals, cork, glass, porcelain and white glazed tiles. Geneva college, established in 1849 at Northwood, 0., by the Reformed Presby terian Church, was moved in 188o to College Hill, the borough adjoining Beaver Falls on the north. Beaver Falls (originally called Brighton) was settled in 18o1 and was incorporated in 1868.